I underestimate oak leaves in fall. Compared to the flood of maple and sumac and honey locust leaves, I struggle to pay attention to them trickling down. But I’ve been noticing them on snow lately, golden warm postcards from a season that I was once intimate with.
I’m more spring-thirsty than usual this year and I think it’s my apartment—the temps sometimes dip to 58F and are rarely above 62F and I struggle to find my ertia when I’m cold (and I’m cold when I’m not moving—a bad feedback loop!). More than other people, I seem to be an object in motion that stays in motion, or an object at rest kind of lethargic and complacent. But to some extent, that is all of us. Once we get started, once we act, we become people-who-do and our gut understanding of our own agency shifts.
Action begets action. Change begets change. Our climate crisis, the social crises layered on top of it and exacerbated by it? Those feel intractable until they don’t, impossible until they aren’t.
Winter’s pacing is always so different from the rest of the year. Even my longest walks are at half the speed. We’re a species in slow motion, a different lethargy than the kind that hits in full heat of summer. But slow motion is different from stasis, and as we move in winter, we create our own heat, our own energy, our own bundled mass of momentum.
Somehow these are tied together, ertia and winter and changing the world. Sometimes everything seems stuck, immutable, a status quo beyond our control until suddenly it isn’t, and we are bursting forth and forward. a revolution rippling out from each seemingly small action.
We are not as powerless as we think we are. We are the ones we’ve been waiting to follow.

We don't know what tomorrow will bring. So don't stay angry for so long.
Learn to forgive and love with all of your heart. Don't worry about the people who don't like you. Enjoy the ones who love you. Nevertheless, love more those who doesn't like you.
Spread love. ♥
#DoubleRainbow#Feb20#LaudatoSi#Godissogreat#FotografiadeKath

In his encyclical Laudato Si, Pope Francis urges us to be better stewards of the Earth, our common home. All Catholics are called to practice environmental justice. So during this season of Lent, do something nice for the environment. #Catholic#Lent#LaudatoSi#environmentalist https://yngcath.com/2sLvlhN

Check out the Lenten calendar focused on vulnerable communities impacted by extractive industries at justresponse.faith/lent-2018-calendar (link in bio).
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Featured today on the calendar is the “Reconciling God, Creation and Humanity” Ignatian examen, introduced by the Jesuit Conference Office of Justice and Ecology last October. The examen can help you reflect on care for creation during Lent. Visit ecoexamen.org or click the link in our bio.

We need you to be a Climate Champion!
We’re looking for thirty volunteers, aged 18-35, to become climate champions. As a CAFOD climate champion, you will take part in an international workshop in summer 2018 on sustainability with other Catholic young people from across Europe. When you return, based on your own strengths and skills, we will support you in raising awareness about climate change, sustainable living and CAFOD campaigns in your parish or community.
We are looking for people with an interest in sustainability and/or campaigning with CAFOD who are enthusiastic to learn more. We also want to recruit people with a mix of skills, experience and backgrounds to take part.
For more information and to apply, email labbott@cafod.org.uk by 5 March 2018. We will let you know by 19 March 2018 if you have been successful in gaining a place.
#climatechampion#climate#volunteer#cafod#charity#campaign#campaigning#environment#laudatosi

As this season of Lent progresses keep in mind to #fast from meat especially on Wednesdays and Fridays. Fast not only from meat, but keep your heart pure and your thoughts clean! Strengthen your resolve and for the renewal of your faith.
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#LaudatoSi#Lent#Renewal

As this season of Lent progresses keep in mind to #pray for those close to you, for those in need, for the earth, for the poor, for your favour. Pray that the world can be rented this Lenten season and find favour in the word. Pray with your families so that those you #care for will be covered by the blessings pouring out of your heart!
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#LaudatoSi#Lent#Renewal

As this season of Lent progresses keep in mind to #give of yourself for your renewal. And there is much we can give not only in $$! Give a kind word, give a helping hand, give a listening ear to someone who needs to be listened to. Or give your time to a worth cause. And remember to give sometime this Lent to readingthe encyclical Laudato Si! .
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So much of what we’re (collectively) capable of is a reflection of our perspective, the stories we tell ourselves.
The UN’s leaked climate report is well within the my estimates. It’s still hard to read and harder still to see so little conversation around it. But for those who haven’t been studying/working on climate change for twenty years, this isn’t necessarily expected news. Even for me, it’s gutting to have confirmation, to face, again, our diagnosis. To expect others to process that as new information and then know what to say or where to start just isn’t reasonable.
2040 isn’t far away. I’m grieving, yes, but I’m also reaffirming my hope, knowing the changes and momentum that I see in every crack and crevice, in every choice we each make. I’m taking today to reflect.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/02/14/leaked-u-n-climate-report-sees-very-high-risk-the-planet-will-warm-beyond-key-limit/